Lucius Big Bang stats

[swissmarg]

luciusbigbang has posted all of the fanworks for this year's fest, and although they did not put up a master list (yet), all the information I needed was there to make statistics, so I've gone ahead and done so. I hope no one minds. :D

Update: The master list has now been posted here.


There were 30 fanworks created for this fest:

25 fics
4 artworks
1 craft (dolls)

By rating:

FICS
G - 2
PG - 3
PG-13 - 4
R - 7
NC17 - 9

ART
G - 3
PG-13 - 1
R - 1

By pairing:
Some fics had more than one main pairing with Lucius. Therefore, the numbers add up to more than 30.

Hermione - 11
None (Gen) - 9
Narcissa - 7
Severus - 3
Bellatrix, Ginny, Pansy - 1 each
Threesome Lucius/Narcissa/Snape and Lucius/Hermione/Snape - 1 each

By word count:

The shortest fic was 1090 words. The longest fic was 28,478 words.

1-2K - i
2-3K - iiii
3-4K - iii
5-6K - iiii
6-7K - i
8-9K - i
10-15K - iiiii i
15-20K - i
20-25K - ii
25-30K - ii

Total words: 243,504
Mean (average): 9,740
Median (half the fics longer, half shorter): 6-7K
Mode (most frequent length): 2-3K, 5-6K

Some thoughts: I think it's great that this fest worked out so well without any prompts or the pressure of needing to create fanworks for someone else. Everything that was created was really made from someone's heart and their own love for Lucius Malfoy, and that's pretty special.

All ratings were represented, although the ratings did tend toward the high end, with 64% of the fics and 57% of the overall contributions rated R or above. However, not all of those high ratings were for sex; a couple of the R ratings were for violence.

I was pleasantly surprised to see so many gen fics for this fest, with nearly half of the fics not focusing on a romantic relationship (although many of the 'gen' fics did contain pairings). Of those featuring a pairing, Hermione was the heavy favorite to pair with Lucius, with Narcissa a fairly close second. There were only 3 fics with slash, and all of them paired Lucius with Severus. There were also only two fics that paired Lucius with someone other than those three (Hermione, Narcissa, Severus), and in both of them, Lucius was also paired with one of the three. In other words, all of the non-gen creations for this fest paired Lucius with either Hermione, Narcissa, and/or Severus. That seems a bit limiting, or maybe the artists and authors were relying on what they know best.

The word counts were quite spread out. Given that there was a creation period of over 6 months, I might have expected at least one very long fic (over 30K, possibly even over 50K), but it didn't happen. There were also no drabbles, although they would have been allowed, except for one set of 26 100-word drabbles, but since that set actually made a larger story, I counted it as a single 2600-word fic. I guess that people thought if they were bothering to enter the challenge, they should write something more than a short drabble.

Comments

[rivertempest.livejournal.com]

We have created a Masterlist, as it were, but haven't posted it yet. We wanted everyone to browse through the posts and possibly choose something that might strike their fancy, as opposed to just selecting a story/artwork based on pairing or rating.

Also, keep in mind that although the authors/artists had about 6 months to create something, it was the summer - full of vacations, RL drama, and a lot of unpleasant things happening to a lot of wonderful people. I know personally, several authors that tried to creat longer works, but chose instead to keep things simpler due to RL issues. A lot of these authors had never written a Lucius fic, and so relied on characters/situations they knew to be familiar in order to tell the story they wanted. I honestly don't see this as being limited, not if it allows authors to write a character they normally wouldn't have in the past.

We appreciate the masterlist. Thank you.

[swissmarg]

Okay, sorry, I will take down the master list until you have posted yours. :)

[rivertempest.livejournal.com]

We appreciate it. Lovely stats, by the way!

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Those stats are fascinating - if only to show the variety of views of a single character in a relatively small corner of fandom. The limited number of pairings are particularly interesting (I confess to being a Lucius/Narcissa or Lucius/Snape writer). Wider fandom often goes for more unusual pairings (Fudge, Percy, Bellatrix and various Marauders al have their fans), but not so much among committed (and so we should be) Lucius fans.

Re length - I always think of 'Big Bangs' as the place for 20k+ fics and initially was put off signing up until the bar was dropped - In the event it should have got a much longer fic from me, if I hadn't had three other commitments over the same period.

But the whole experience has been very inspirational.